Russian Tanker Reaches Venezuela After Evading U.S. Warship | OilPrice.com
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A sanctioned Russian shadow fleet tanker has reached Venezuela’s waters after evading a U.S. destroyer
    • Infamousblt [any]@hexbear.netEnglish
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      3 months ago

      There’s no way the US would sink a ship like this. They’ll get in the way and harass to try to get the ship to leave but sinking it would be and historically has been a first strike in a war

    • burlemarx
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      3 months ago

      I don’t even want to dream about it. It would probably provoke a retaliation, which could lead to an unlikely escalation, or more likely it would probably result in something similar to the Iran-US retaliatory strike. The problem is sinking a tanker can have many bad environmental repercussions, which would damage US PR a lot.